Build Your First Classroom
Before You’re Standing In Front of It.
Create your classroom culture, routines, expectations, and first-days plan—before students walk through the door.
TEACH LIKE A TOPTEN™ SERVES K–12 TEACHERS
Build Your Classroom™ Frameworks: Grades K–12 • First 3 Days of School™ Mini-Course: Grades K–6
THE FEATURED NEW TEACHER BUNDLE
First Classroom Launch System™
Stop piecing together random teaching tips. Build one intentional plan for the classroom you actually want to teach in.
GRADES K–12
Build Your Classroom™ Frameworks
Design your culture, routines, expectations, teacher language, learning experiences, and student ownership plan.
GRADES K–6
First 3 Days of School™ Mini-Course
Plan what students will experience, practice, and begin owning from Day One.
ALL GRADE LEVELS
90 Days Inside the Community
Bring your questions, share what is happening, and keep building after students arrive.
The complete bundle is especially designed for new K–6 teachers. Teachers in grades 7–12 can explore the K–12 frameworks, resources, coaching, and community pathways below.
Your classroom does not need to be perfect.
It needs to be built intentionally.
Build it first. Manage it second.
Strong classrooms are not built from a collection of tricks. They are built through intentional routines, meaningful expectations, strong relationships, and opportunities for students to contribute.
Teaching Grades K–12? You Are in the Right Place.
Most TEN frameworks, resources, coaching experiences, challenges, and community conversations are built for teachers across grades K–12. Choose what matches the classroom you are building right now.
EXPLORE ALL K–12 TEACHER PATHS ↓
TEACH LIKE A TOPTEN™ PATHWAYS
Start With the Path That Fits
the Classroom You Are Building.
TEN serves teachers across grades K–12 with classroom-building frameworks, courses, challenges, resources, coaching, and teacher conversations.
The featured First Classroom Launch System™ is designed especially for new K–6 teachers.
FEATURED FOR NEW K–6 TEACHERS
First Classroom Launch System™
Build the classroom you want, plan how you will begin, and stay connected through the first 90 days of the year.
GRADES K–12
Build Your Classroom™ Frameworks
Decide how you want students to feel, participate, learn, and contribute in your classroom.
âś“ Classroom vision
âś“ Intentional routines
âś“ Teacher language
âś“ Meaningful expectations
âś“ Student voice and ownership
GRADES K–6
First 3 Days of School™ Mini-Course
Plan the experiences that will introduce students to the classroom you are building together.
âś“ Day-by-day planning
âś“ Community-building experiences
âś“ Routines taught through practice
âś“ Expectations built with students
âś“ A strong start to ownership
ALL GRADE LEVELS
90 Days Inside the Community
Keep building once the year begins with teachers who understand the questions that come after Day One.
âś“ Ask real classroom questions
âś“ Share wins and work through challenges
âś“ Join focused teacher challenges
âś“ Learn alongside other educators
âś“ Strengthen what you started
Best fit for new K–6 teachers. Teachers in grades 7–12 can begin with the K–12 Build Your Classroom™ Frameworks below.
Your first year will teach you plenty.
You should not have to begin without a classroom plan.
K–12 TEACHER COMMUNITY
Build Alongside Teachers Who Get It
The Teach Like a TopTEN™ Community is where K–12 teachers turn ideas into classroom decisions, ask honest questions, and keep building throughout the year.
HAPPENING NOW — JOIN ANYTIME
The 21-Day Build Your Classroom Challenge™
Build your classroom vision, routines, expectations, teacher language, student ownership, and launch plan through one focused step each day.
Coming July 27: Set Up for Community™ — The 7-Day Classroom Setup Challenge. Design a classroom that helps students connect, contribute, and take ownership—not simply a room that looks good.
$14.99/month • Grades K–12 • Join anytime
TEACHERS ACROSS K–12
Choose Your Next Move
Choose the course, resource, challenge, coaching experience, or community that matches your grade level and what you are building right now.
GRADES K–12
Build Your Classroom™ Frameworks
Build your classroom vision, routines, teacher language, expectations, learning experiences, student ownership, and classroom launch at your own pace.
BUILD MY CLASSROOM →GRADES K–6
First 3 Days of School™ Mini-Course
Plan how you will begin building relationships, routines, expectations, student voice, community, and ownership from the moment students arrive.
PLAN MY FIRST 3 DAYS →GRADES K–12
Start With One Strong Idea
Explore classroom culture, routines, teacher language, student ownership, and real strategies from a teacher who has used them.
EXPLORE FREE RESOURCES →WHY TEACHERS JOIN TEACH LIKE A TOP TEN™
Most teachers don’t need more ideas.
They need a clearer path. Inside Teach Like a Top TEN™, we help teachers build the classroom foundations that make everything else easier: culture, routines, expectations, student ownership, engagement, teacher language, and follow-through.
Culture First. Behavior Second.
Build a classroom where students understand expectations, feel connected, and learn how to take ownership of the community they are part of.
Frameworks, Not Random Tips.
Stop collecting disconnected strategies. Build practical systems you can implement, refine, and return to all year long.
The Small Things Matter.
Teacher language, transitions, routines, reflection, and follow-through shape how your classroom feels every single day.
You’re Not Building Alone.
Join teachers who are intentionally building stronger classrooms, stronger culture, and better teaching experiences step by step.
Strong classrooms aren’t built by accident.
They’re built intentionally — one routine, one expectation, one conversation, one student ownership move at a time.
And they’re easier to build when you’re not doing it alone.
THE TEN DIFFERENCE
We Don’t Teach Classroom Management as a Collection of Tricks.
TEN connects the pieces teachers are usually handed separately—classroom culture, routines, expectations, teacher language, learning, relationships, and student ownership—so they become one intentional classroom experience.
FROM SARAH
I spent years trying to get better at managing students.
I collected strategies, created every routine, made every decision, and worked harder to keep everything running.
Then I realized the strongest classrooms were not the ones where the teacher controlled every moment.
They were the classrooms where students knew how to participate, contribute, reflect, solve problems, and take ownership.
Culture First.
Behavior Second.
That realization became the foundation of Teach Like a TopTEN™.
Built From Real Classrooms
Every framework comes from more than 20 years of teaching, coaching, observing students, refining ideas, and learning what actually changes the classroom experience.
Every Piece Connects
Your routines, expectations, language, lessons, relationships, and opportunities for ownership should all reinforce the same classroom vision.
Built Around the Three Pillars™
High Expectations. Student Voice. Relationships.
These pillars shape how we teach routines, build community, design learning, and invite students into meaningful ownership.
Built for Every Stage of Teaching
New teachers can build from the beginning. Experienced teachers can strengthen routines, rethink their first days, deepen student ownership, or rebuild a classroom that no longer feels the way they want it to.
The goal is not to manage every moment.
It is to build a classroom students know how to be part of.
You do not need to copy someone else’s classroom. You need to intentionally build the one you—and your students—can thrive in.
KEEP BUILDING WITH TEN
Strong Classrooms Are Built Intentionally.
Choose the next step that fits you—fresh classroom ideas delivered to your inbox or a teacher community where you can keep building alongside people who get it.
FREE WEEKLY EMAIL
The Empowered Teacher Newsletter
Get one strong idea at a time for classroom culture, routines, teacher language, expectations, student voice, and ownership.
âś“ Real talk from a veteran teacher
âś“ Specific ideas you can actually use
âś“ No random fluff or recycled tricks
BUILD WITH TEACHERS WHO GET IT
Teach Like a TopTEN™ Community
Turn ideas into real classroom decisions, ask the questions that come up after students arrive, and keep strengthening what you started.
âś“ Start the 21-Day Challenge anytime
âś“ Join the 7-Day Setup Challenge beginning July 27
âś“ Learn through focused challenges and honest teacher conversations
$14.99/month • Join anytime • Cancel anytime
Build it first. Manage it second.
Real Talk. Real Tools. Real Results.
Culture first. Behavior second.
